Volume 1
Global climate change and sustainable development : third report of Session 2001-02 / International Development Committee.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
- Date:
- 2002
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Global climate change and sustainable development : third report of Session 2001-02 / International Development Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![any practical value.*** Saleemul Huq, IIED, called for better integration of multilateral environmental agreements saying, “It is much more important than just doing another standalone plan which will be left on the shelf or brought to international meetings but not have any relevance for the country.”.**? DFID and other donors should be working to ensure that existing strategies are pulled down from the shelves, dusted off and revised. New strategies should take account, from the outset, of the need for an integrated policy framework. Climate change must be a part of such a framework. The MEAs could reduce the burden on countries by adopting similar reporting conventions but the ultimate goal must be to have them properly integrated within national policies. Linking NSSDs, PRSPs and NAPAs 125. DFID recognised the impacts of climate change were fundamental to the development prospects of many poor countries and called for adaptation measures to be placed in the context of national poverty reduction strategies and other development processes.**° However, there is little evidence that National Strategies for Sustainable Development (NSSDs) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are addressing poverty in a way that takes account of environmental issues and resources. National plans lack coordination.**' DFID suggested that poverty reduction strategies provided the ideal vehicle for ensuring that poverty and environment issues were properly integrated into other policies and programmes, especially macroeconomic policies. If correctly developed, PRSPs could serve a dual purpose by serving as national strategies for sustainable development as well. Sectoral polices needed to recognise poverty and environment . linkages. We believe that climate change can be mainstreamed through PRSPs. Climate change strategies should, however, remain distinct from short-term environmental strategies to avoid them becoming lost among short-term competing priorities. 126. Guidelines for the preparation of National Adaptation Programmes for Action (NAPAs) were established at CoP-7 in Marrakech. The development of NAPAs is a vital part of building policy coherence and mainstreaming climate change considerations in developing countries. However, little guidance exists on what could or should be included. A least developed countries expert group was established to help the preparation of NAPAs and promote the exchange of best practice. It acts in an advisory capacity to least developed countries on the preparation of NAPAs and capacity building needs. DFID has a representative on the group.’ Plans for a fund to provide the necessary financial resources for the preparation of the NAPAs were discussed and are to be taken forward by the GEF. We support DFID’s aim of ensuring that NAPAs become an effective part of the mainstreamed response to climate change.*”* 127. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) recommended that the UK government should help and encourage policy integration by ensuring that NSSDs included climate change issues and actions.“ This policy integration should go further. The National Communication, NAPA, PRSP, NSSD, and other similar policies and reports should be a consistent, coherent set of documents, committed to the same sustainable development path and recognising the interdependency of issues like poverty reduction, the environment, climate change and sustainable development. Developing countries may not need help to develop specific policies on climate change if they can be encouraged and helped to design all their policies in a way that minimises the impact on the climate. DFID and other donors may have to support some capacity and 338 Ev 71 [para 11] 339Qg9 340Ry 122 [para 13] 341 Q 89 342Fy 123 [para 18] 3436 123 [para 20] 3445 70 [para 7]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32221356_0001_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
